All-metal fencepost



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M. J. DoNAHoE, .JR.

ALL ETL FENGEPOST' Filed D60. 19. 1923 gwoemtoz N JLM/PW' Patented Nov. 17, 1925.

UNITED STTE MIIKE J. DGhl'AI-IOE, JR., GF SEDALA, MXSSOURI.

ALL-IVIETAL FENCEST.

Application tiled December 19, 1923. Serial No. 681,583.

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, lll/[inn J. Derivation,

Jr., a. citizen of the United States. residing at Sedalia, in the county of Pettis and State of lnlissouri, have invented certain new and useful linprovements in All-Metal Fenceposts, ot which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a all metal tence post.

One object of this invention is to provide a fence post of this class having means for stretching the wire or the netting not only when the fence is being erected but at any other time the wire ornetting becomes slack.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the fence post that it will not be lifted out of the ground by frost as is commouly the case with fence posts of ordinary design. rlhe post is furthe1 provided with ineans for preventing it from being turned or twisted out of its erected position in the ground.

The post is, moreover, reinforced inthe part where it experiences the greatest bending strain, that is to say, immediately above and below the ground.

In the accompanying drawing, the fence post, forming the subject matter ofthe present invention, is illustrated, andd Figure 1 is al side elevation of the fence post.;

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof;

Figure 3 is a transverse section on an enlarged scale along line 3 3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is another transverse section along line 4 4 of Figure 27 and Figure is a side elevation of a slightly inodiiied form of the post.

The fence postl consists mainly of a steel or angle iron having two flanges 10 forming substantially a.' right angle to each other as seen in Figures 3 and 4. The post is of sufficientlength to hold it firmly in the ground and is preferably provided with a rearwardly extending wing 11 firmly united with the angle iron along its apex on the part intended to be embedded in the ground. As best seen in Figure l the vertical plane in which this wing is situated bisects the angle formed at the apex of the two flanges 10 of the post. This wing is preferably beveled, as at 12, on its upper side and is not visible above ground when the post has been erected.

Along the forward edges of the flanges 10 are preferably provided downwardly directed notches 13 adapted to temporarily receive the barbed wires 23 while the fence is beine' erected but they are not absolutely necessary aswhen the wires havebeen permanently secured they cannot shift np and down on the post.

In the angle formed between the flanges and reaching a short distance up and down on the post from the ground line is provided a reintorceinent 14s. This is for the purpose of preventing the bending of the post at the ground line where such bending generally H takes place on account of the great strain at this point. In the vertical central plane of the fence post is provided a number of apertures 15. three of which are shown in the drawing and adapted to engage the Shanks of clamping eye bolts 16 which are threaded at their ends to engage with clamping nuts 17.

Reference numeral 18 represents a shoe which embraces the fence post and is adapted to slide up and down thereon. This shoe may be secured in any suitable position by means of a set screw 19 drawn up to contact with one of the flanges lO of the fence post. This shoe has a centrally situated inwardly directed hook or eye 2O which is adapted to engage the lower end of a securing rod 21 which also engages in the loops 22 of the clamping bolts 16.

In order to build a fence the posts are set up as indicated in Figures 1 and 2. That is to say, if the ground is not too hard a hole is dug for the post which is then placed therein in upright position so that the wing 11 is entirely below the ground line and the soil is thereupon packed in the usual manner tightly around the post. The shoe 18 is slipped over the post from the upper end thereof and placed near or on the ground as seen in said figures. The shoe is thereupon secured by the set screw 19.

The 'wires 23 are then placed temporarily in the notches provided along the edges of the flanges and stretched in the usual manner between the ends of the fence. The rod 21 is then inserted in the hook 2O leaning forwardly as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1 with its handle end 24 some distance away from the topend of the fence post while previously the clampingbolts 16 have been slipped loosely on the rod 21. The rod is now swung toward the post, the hook 2O CTI.

acting as the 'ulcruni and the lowerinost ot the clamping bolts 16 entered in a corresponding aperture in the tence post and the bolt drawn up by means ot the clamping nut 17 toward the apex ot the tence post. The other clamping bolts 16 are then entered in the saine manner and drawn up by the respective nuts 17 in the fence post. As these bolts are tightened the slack in the wires is entirely taken up as the securing rod 21 contacts with all of the wires in the tence. lt is evident that i'l` the wires should becoine slack Subsequently to the erection ot' the tence, a further tightening is easily accomplished by drawing up the nuts inore lirnily on the clamping bolts 16 and the wires will be drawn inwardly in the tence post as l est indicated in Figure Then the posts are intended for Very hard ground in which 'freezing would have no etect on thein, they inay be pointed at their lower ends, as indicated at 24. in Figure 5 ot the drawing.

After the wires have been secured by the clamping bolts 16 and the securing rod 21 as already described, they cannot shit't up and down on the post even it no notches are provided in the edges thereof. This is particularly the case wnen wire netting is used for the fence and the notches may then be let't out entirely. The notches have been left out in the post shown in Figure 5 which is otherwise identical with the post shown in the other figures.

Having thus described the invention, what is claiined as new is:

An all metal tence post comprising an angle bar having diverging flanges extending the full height o'l the bar and bot-h adapted to engage and support tence wires, eye bolts engaged through the apex of the @angle bar with their eyes between the tlanges thereot', nuts inounted on the ends ot said bolts to be turned honle against the bar, a securing rod engaged through the eyes ot said bolts in iront of and in contact with the fence wires, a shoe encircling and adjustably secured upon the angle bar at the lower portion thereof, and a hook carried by the shoe and extending inwardly between the flanges ot' the bar and gripping the lower end of the securing rod.

in testimony whereof l al'iiX iny signature.

MIKE J. DGNAHOE, JR. [DS] 

